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The Four Wise Men

The Four Wise Men

by Prof Michel Tournier (Author)

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    Paperback 1997

    $26.69

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    Paperback 1983

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    Hardcover 1982

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Synopsis

Displaying his characteristic penchant for the macabre, the tender and the comic, Michael Tournier presents the traditional Magi describing their personal odysseys to Bethlehem-and audaciously imagines a fourth, the eternal latecomer ' whose story of hardship and redemption is the most moving and instructive of all. Prince of Mangalore and son of an Indian maharajah, Taor has tasted an exquisite confection, rachat loukoum, and is so taken by the flavor that he sets out to recover the recipe. His quest takes him across Western Asia and finally lands him in Sodom, where he is imprisoned in a salt mine. There, this fourth wise man learns the recipe from a fellow prisoner, and learns of the existence and meaning of Jesus.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 264
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: JHUP
Published: 13 Aug 1997
ISBN 10: 0801857333
ISBN 13: 9780801857331
Book Overview: This may be more than a novel of high achievement, in fact; it may be the best work so far of a truly daring writer. - America

Media Reviews
The Four Wise Men struck me as a true masterpiece. -- Lewis Jones * New Statesman *
A work of extraordinary clarity. -- Jonathan Baumbach * New York Times Book Review *
There is a real touch of magic in this novel. * The Atlantic *
This is a novel of high achievement. Tournier works to assert an apologia of Christianity and its underlying message of love, and he does so with finely paced arguing, well-balanced counterarguing and, most importantly, genuine intellectual energy... This may be more than a novel of high achievement, in fact; it may be the best work so far of a truly daring writer. * America *
Tournier is an ambitious and profound writer. * Washington Post *
Author Bio
Born in 1924, Michel Tournier studied philosophy and then became a journalist and a writer. He is the author of several novels, including The Ogre, Friday, and Gemini, also available in paperback from Johns Hopkins.